Del Valle High School, located in Austin TX, is now home to one of the finest high school weight training facilities in the country. Go ahead, we dare you to try and beat this one! WAY too many custom items to list, but the highlights include Custom Double and Half Racks all linked together with Custom Graphics, Plates, Bumper Plates and Benches, a slew of specialized machines, Custom DB racks to hold Med Balls, KB’s and Custom Logo DB’s and much much more!!
Del Valle High School
Del Velle, Texas
Inside the Del Valle High School weight room
Del Valle High School in the Austin, Texas area created a highly customized high-school weight training facility. The photos and video on this page document the finished training environment and show how equipment, storage, branding, and open floor area work together as one system. For coaches and administrators planning a similar project, the value of the gallery is in the relationships between those elements, not just in any single rack or machine.
Equipment and layout highlights
The room includes linked custom double and half racks with graphic treatments, plates, bumper plates, benches, specialized machines, and custom dumbbell racks designed to organize medicine balls, kettlebells, and logo dumbbells. Each selection supports a specific job in the room. Primary lifting stations establish the main training lanes, benches and attachments expand exercise options, and dedicated storage keeps plates, bars, dumbbells, bands, and accessories close to where they are used. That organization can reduce unnecessary traffic and help a coaching staff move groups through training with fewer interruptions.
Design lessons from this project
Linking rack stations and integrating storage can turn a large equipment package into a clearer training system. The design challenge is to maintain open movement paths and coaching visibility while giving each station the tools athletes need. A productive layout begins with the program: expected group size, coaching sightlines, exercise flow, available square footage, ceiling height, entrances, turf or platform transitions, and the equipment the staff uses most often. Planning those details together helps prevent a room from becoming a collection of disconnected pieces.
Branding can reinforce identity, but it works best when it is integrated into functional equipment and durable surfaces. Graphic shields, logo platforms, upholstery, and coordinated colors give a facility a consistent appearance without replacing the practical work of spacing, storage, and equipment selection. The goal is a room that looks like the program and continues to operate efficiently during busy team sessions.
Planning a school or university weight room
Texas schools, districts, and booster organizations planning a branded room with broad team-training capacity should begin by documenting how the room is used now and what needs to improve. List the number of athletes expected in each group, the movements that require dedicated stations, storage problems, accessibility needs, and any future expansion. From there, compare layouts by training capacity and workflow rather than by equipment count alone. A smaller number of well-planned stations can serve a program better than a crowded floor that limits coaching and movement.
Samson Equipment works with programs from early planning through manufacturing and installation. Explore our custom weight room solutions, review the design and manufacturing process, or start a conversation about your facility.
